Posts tagged "Stroop-Bericht"

SS Officer Looks Up during the Fighting As with many photos in the work, almost every SS officer has been identified. This study found that only a handful of Nazi personnel were ever tried after the war for their participation in the destruction of the Ghetto. After the war, American forces apprehended Stroop and tried […]

SS and Ukrainian Soldier Guarding Jews Just past the wooden wall leads to the Umschlagplatz. The sorting process has already begun, with many women and children on the right and older men on the left. Some will be sent on trains to labor camps, while others will go to Treblinka.

SS Officers with Half-Track at the Umschlagplatz (Trans-shipment Place) SS troops escorted Jews to this location, where they were sent by train to labor camps or where they boarded a train for the Treblinka extermination camp. Officer with many decorations and black gloves is Jürgen Stroop.

Daily Maps of the Ghetto Fighting There is a map for every day of the fighting, as the operation was very fluid with no set battle lines. These maps are for April 27 and April 28, 1943. In addition to the points of fighting, the areas of the Ghetto that the Nazis set afire are […]

Jürgen Stroop, the SS commander at Warsaw Jürgen Stroop is looking at a paper or a map. Soldiers around him stand at the ready, indicating that he is in or close to the Jewish Ghetto. Stroop was born at Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, on September 26, 1895. He fought as an enlisted man in World War […]

German SS and Army officers in discussion in Warsaw Given the stance of the SS soldier at left, the group is probably in the small factory area of the Ghetto. The SS wanted to liquidate the Ghetto; the German Army wanted the factories to continue production of small goods they needed.